Example sentences of "what could [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purposes were essentially prophylactic , contingent , and , in spite of official exaggeration , somewhat confused by the absence of what could clearly be identified as ‘ communist aggression ’ . |
| 2 | Lear was also subject at the hands of his employer to even more glaring misacknowledgements : in what could generously be described as an insensitive oversight , four of the plates in Birds , are referred to at the bottom of the page as being ‘ drawn from Nature and on Stone by J & E Gould ’ , while the style of the bird and the signature on the drawing itself are patently Lear 's . |
| 3 | A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility , and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation . |
| 4 | Yet what could never be achieved via Parliament could be experimented with in more exciting forms in Southampton Row and the network around it . |
| 5 | The absurdity of the Italian ‘ recruitment ’ system is revealed by what could safely be described as the ‘ Aquila paradox ’ — the man sidelined by Martin was none other than the successful Italian fullback Luigi Troiani . |
| 6 | Secondary to that , I anticipated what could possibly be done with such power . |
| 7 | Terse , poignant , and well made , it says what could only be said in poetry . |
| 8 | She was grinning at Harold in what could only be construed as a saucy way . |
| 9 | We went with our newly found friend who took us through the side door to a shed at the back of his premises and showed us what could only be described as treasure — five large horse collars of black leather . |
| 10 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 11 | The proposers , Neil McLean and Mel Collier , head and deputy head of library services at PCL , wanted to see what could usefully be done in the way of library automation using networked microcomputers rather than the conventional multi-user access to a mainframe or large mini . |